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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
by-law (also bye-law)

▶noun

1 Brit. a regulation made by a local authority or corporation.

2 a rule made by a company or society to control the actions of its members.

– origin ME: prob. from obs. byrlaw ‘local law or custom’, from ON býjar, genitive sing. of býr ‘town’, but assoc. with by.

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